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Stories about: cosmic microwave background

WMAP Probe Completes Primary Science Mission Officials at NASA announce that their Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which has been conducting surveys of the cosmic microwave background for over nine years, has finally ended its primary science mission.The spacecraft conducts observations of the CMB, which is the oldest light in the Universe. This ra... 6 October 2010 11:33 GMT Measuring the Temperature of the Distant Universe with a Molecule With the help of the Very Large Telescope, ESO astronomers have recently obtained an ultraviolet signature of carbon monoxide molecules inside a well hidden galaxy located 11 billion light years away from Earth. The VLT used its UVES spectrograph for a period of 8 hours to study the galaxy, during which time it obtai... 13 May 2008 03:42 GMT